Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which pervade the entire poem, rendering it harmonious even when the ideas fail to please us. Mr. Felton, in a well written, concise narrative, states clearly a rather complicated story. The peculiarity of the writer's style is to the best advantage, and the story cannot but call up vivid ideas of the stirring times of the "sixties." Mr. Sanborn's short poem is pleasing...
Seldom has a series of lectures been given at Harvard more entertaining or instructive than Professor Cooke's lectures on the "Ice Fields of Switzerland." The effect of the lecturer's remarkable powers of vivid description is heightened by the use of a powerful stereopticon. View after view is projected on the screen, and it is difficult not to feel that one is actually transported to the land of mountains and glaciers. We would remind the students that the lectures begin promptly at seven o'clock, not at half past, as some seem to have got the impression...
...following vivid description of a cane rush at Columbia is taken from the N. Y. Times...
...members of the Historical Society were entertained at their meeting held on Monday evening by a vivid and instructive talk on "Modern Fench Politics," by Mr. Cohn of the French department. The formation of the present French constitution was traced from its beginning in 1875, through the two modifications or amendments to the present day. The year of 1885-6 was stated to mark an important period in the history of the new republic, for not only the third and last class of the elected senators will be changed during the present year, thus completing the electionof the entire senate...
Sever 11 was packed last evening with the audience that througed to hear the great temperance orator, John B. Gough. Mr. Gough's address, while it was filled with vivid stories, brilliant jokes, and the greatest originality, was also powerful in its argument as well as persuasive in its style of oratory-albeit Mr. Gough said at the beginning of his lecture, that in all of the 8,500 addresses he had made, he had never been guilty of logic, unity, or argument. The address is given very briefly below...